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If grounding the radials is the issue it seems like I could just take an alligator clip jumper and connect the radials to the mast at the top of the pipe, temporarily. I should see a difference on the meter if it does have an effect.
I was also thinking that I could ground the braid of the coax to a water pipe with a jumper (at ground level), but that would make the coax part of the antenna ground system and might make things worse ???

If grounding the radials produces results it will be pretty easy to just drill a hole in the gray pvc that is currently isolating the radials and let one of the set screws make contact with the mast.

[QUOTE="W9WD, post: 142098"] If grounding the radials is the issue it seems like I could just take an alligator clip jumper and connect the radials to the mast at the top of the pipe, temporarily. I should see a difference on the meter if it does have an effect. I was also thinking that I could ground the braid of the coax to a water pipe with a jumper (at ground level), but that would make the coax part of the antenna ground system and might make things worse ??? If grounding the radials produces results it will be pretty easy to just drill a hole in the gray pvc that is currently isolating the radials and let one of the set screws make contact with the mast. [/QUOTE]

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